Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) asked Mullin about Noem’s decision to cut CISA’s workforce by one third and remove hundreds of millions of dollars from the agency’s budget after Trump took office.
Previous clandestine community assessments have documented, at least at a high level, attempts by Iran, Russia or China to sway voters with online propaganda or through cyber operations.
The company, which provides software that allows financial institutions to communicate with customers, previously warned in November that at least 74 banks, credit unions and financial institutions were impacted by a data breach.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) Acting Director Nick Andersen said the agency has been working closely with industry and sector-based groups on threats from Iran in the past couple of weeks.
Bitrefill said hackers allegedly tied to North Korea’s Lazarus group accessed around 18,500 purchase records that contained email addresses, crypto payment addresses, and metadata including IP addresses.
A Georgia man who had already served time for conning professional athletes is accused of impersonating a prominent adult film actress in order to break into the Apple accounts of NBA and NFL players.
Alex Fitzsimmons, the acting director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), said the plan is meant to supplement the recently-published national cyber strategy and will focus on how the agency will strengthen the “security resilience” of the energy sector.
Electronic ordering systems belonging to the medical device company Stryker are still down a week after a cyberattack believed to have wiped thousands of company devices of all information. The company said its digital products are safe for use.
A Russia-linked hacker group launched a cyber-espionage campaign targeting Ukrainian organizations using fake documents about Starlink satellite internet terminals and a well-known Ukrainian charity, to infect devices with spyware.
The new rules for water and wastewater entities in New York include mandatory cybersecurity training for certified operators, incident response plans and reporting requirements.
The Council said in a press release that it has added a new provision in the AI Act “prohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material.”
U.S. prosecutors accused an incident responder of conducting cyberattacks and helping ransomware gangs negotiate higher payouts from the same victims he was working for.
The SocksEscort proxy network allowed cybercriminals to purchase access to routers infected with malware, which they used to conceal their location and IP addresses.
The number of FBI searches of data collected through the surveillance program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) between December 2024 to November 2025 rose to 7,413 from 5,518 the previous year.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom stressed that they expect immediate action, with Ofcom saying that firms have until the end of April to report back on their plans.
Brig. Gen. Matthew Lennox, a senior leader at Army Cyber Command, will take over for Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, who had led the force since 2024.
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